Code Scans (devin.ai)

20 points by geoffbp 6 hours ago

akersten 3 hours ago

Their sample prompt takes me back a year or two:

> Find unused code in our web app. Exclude generated files and test fixtures, and check for indirect references before recommending a removal.

If I "/goal remove unused code" in Claude today, I would not even think to specify "check for indirect references" and "don't consider generated code dead code," those sorts of intuitions have been "built in" to the frontier models for a while now.

So I'm pretty confused by this, what does it do that I can't with an agent swarm?

v3ss0n 5 hours ago

just another prompt right?

fakeBeerDrinker 4 hours ago

Yeah, but now with “agentic mapreduce”! A “talent dense” team of prompters selling to the Feds.

dudus 5 hours ago

With a forloop